"At each station, product-quality inspectors (supervisors) were apt to use their computers to entertain themselves rather than to inspect the quality of the work that was passing by".
The image of the novelist as a species of intellectual royalty, administering vast realms of mental space with absolute, divine authority while resisting the claims of social relevance and popular amusement, reappears in a number of the essays, and always as something to be revered and mourned rather than archaeologically inspected.
The Hummer then pulls over, but rather than stop to inspect for any damage, the Mercedes pulls around it and drives away.
It is then necessary to select tubes by the quality of their power spectra rather than attempting to inspect the crystalline lattice directly.
Many companies had argued that they should be able to hire third-party companies to inspect their plants, rather than undergo numerous inspections to satisfy federal and foreign requirements.
Yet a year later the same photograph was considered emblematic of exactly the opposite: a president out of touch and unmoved by the people's suffering — Mr. Bush was looking down on New Orleans, rather than stopping personally to inspect.
Yesterday, department officials said the city would now notify fire companies of permits issued for construction or demolition so they could easily determine which buildings to inspect, rather than having to find them by driving around the neighborhood.
At the same time, however, if possible, our epistemology ought to cohere with common sense, insofar as common sense requires that we inspect rather than have pure faith in whatever makes us seriously vulnerable to other people, which trust can most definitely do.
United States officials have said that the lack of proof about the cause of the fire — and the fact that none of the transmitters had been known to cause a fire in more than 50 million flight hours — suggested that simply inspecting, rather than removing, the devices should be sufficient.
